The Story of Philosophy
by Will Duriant
我是从2015年开始跟夏老师读《哲学的故事》，迄今为止，这是影响我最深的一本书之一。去年去美国玩的时候，专门买了一本影印版，留作纪念。打那之后，我便成了杜兰特忠实的读者。从《哲学的故事》出发，慢慢开始尝试他其他的著作。
Men are not content with a simple life: they are acquisitive, ambitious,competitive, and jealous; they soon tire of what they have, and pine for whatthey have not; and they seldom desire anything unless it belongs to others.
人不满足于一个简单的生活: 他们贪婪,野心勃勃,争强好胜和嫉妒成性,他们很快就会厌倦所拥有的,追求还没有得到的;他们很少渴望任何东西,除非它是属于别人的。
Morality, said Jesus, is kindness to the weak;morality, said Nietzsche, is the bravery of the strong; morality, says Plato, is the effective harmony of the whole.
耶稣说,道德是善良软弱; 道德,尼采说,是强者的勇气; 柏拉图说, 道德是整体有效的和谐。
We want to learn to laugh in the face of the inevitable, to smile even at the looming of death. We want to be whole, to coordinate our energies by criticizing and harmonizing our desires; for coordinated energy: is the last word in ethics and politics, and perhaps in logic and metaphysics too.
我们想学会笑面对不可避免的灾难,即使死亡即将到来的时候也要微笑。我们要完整,通过批判和协调我们的欲望来调和；因为调和，无论是从伦理与政治，还是逻辑和形而上学来说，都是最重要的。
We think we are most ourselves when we are most passionate, whereas it is then we are most passive, caught in some ancestral torrent of impulse or feeling, and swept onto a precipitate reaction which meets only part of the situation because without thought only part of a situation can be perceived.
我们认为自己最真实的的时候是当自己充满激情的时候，但这恰恰是我们最被动，陷入冲动的时候；因为大脑被迫作出应激反应，而这样的处理方式只能解决一部分问题；缺乏理性的思考，我们便无法全面地感知问题。
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